[AISWorld] AISWorld Digest, Vol 29, Issue 19 - Call for Papters

Fri Mar 16 11:26:31 EDT 2012

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH [IJBIR] 

Call for Papers: 
The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, the coverage, and directions for submission to IJBIR. 

Mission: The mission of the journal is to advance research in the field of business intelligence and analytics and to identify ways that BI creates value for organizations. The journal publishes original academic research/case studies, as well as selective thought provoking papers on issues, strategies, practices, techniques, and technologies from both academics and practitioners that advance the understanding and practice of Business Intelligence. The focus of this journal is to identify innovative Business Intelligence strategies and to assess the application of theoretical concepts to real-world situations. IJBIR takes a multidisciplinary approach to the examination of business intelligence. 

Submitting to IJBIR: 
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf prior to submission. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 2 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to patrica.rafferty at sju.edu. 

Publisher: 
The International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) is published by IGI 

All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: 
patricia.rafferty at sju.edu 

Patricia D. Rafferty, Ed.D. 
Erivan K. Haub School of Business 
Saint Joseph's University 

Director 
Master of Science in Business Intelligence Program 
Master of Science in Managing Human Capital Program 
Managing Editor 
International Journal of Business Intelligence Research 
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=1168&detailstype=description 

Be part of the evolution in human resource management and learn about our program name change at www.sju.edu/hsb/hr 

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Today's Topics: 

1. 2nd CFP: MCIS 2012 Crowdsourcing for Innovation, 
Productivity, and Creativity (Paul Di Gangi) 
2. Call For Papers-11th Annual Symposium on Research in Systems 
Analysis and Design (Bera, Palash) 
3. Assistant Professor of MIS (Tenure-track) Position at the 
University of Oklahoma (Chidambaram, Laku) 
4. First Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological 
Analysis: Registration opened (frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de) 
5. Senior lecturer position in Informatics with expertise in 
databases, data warehousing and data modeling (Anne Persson) 
6. Announcing: Volume 22, issue 1 of the Journal of 
Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (Holsapple, Clyde W) 
7. Critical Success Factors of Location Based Services -- A 
Request (Keng Siau) 
8. CfP: 14th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise 
Computing (CEC 2012) (Christian Pichler) 
9. ISeB CfP: Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) (Kai Fischbach) 
10. CFP WOSIS 2012 (special issue of Computer Standards and 
Interfaces) (DAVID GARCIA ROSADO) 
11. CFP Reminder: IEEE IRI 2012 (Mohd Anwar) 
12. CfP ISD2012 Track: The changing landscape of Information 
Systems. Properties of a new IS ecology. (Jacques Steyn) 
13. AISWorld Mailing list submission (Podhradsky,Ashley) 

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:10:01 -0400 
From: Paul Di Gangi <pdigangi at gmail.com> 
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Subject: [AISWorld] 2nd CFP: MCIS 2012 Crowdsourcing for Innovation, 
Productivity, and Creativity 
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7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) 2012 
Adopting Emergent Knowledge & Technologies to Develop Innovative 
Information Systems (CloudWisdom) 

Guimar?es, Portugal - September 8-10, 2012 
Track Title: Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and Creativity 

Track Chairs: 
Isabel Ramos, University of Minho 
Lee Erickson, The Pennsylvania State University 
Paul M. Di Gangi, Loyola University Maryland 
Carl Adams, University of Portsmouth 

In today?s fast-paced globally competitive marketplace, organizations are 
looking for new ways to reduce costs, increase productivity, and bring 
innovative products to market. To accomplish such tasks, organizations are 
beginning to leverage the ?crowd? both internally and externally as a 
source of knowledge, creativity, and expertise. Whether ggregating the 
collective ?wisdom of the crowd? or looking for individual input for 
problem solving or ideation, many organizations are experimenting with the 
crowd to complement or even replace existing innovation resources and 
processes. ?Crowdsourcing? is the act of leveraging a large group of 
people to perform tasks commonly performed by designated employees or 
agents. Information Systems (IS) and Web technologies are key to 
organizations? ability to reach out to, interact with, and manage the input 
of the crowd. Today for-profit corporations, non-profit organizations, and 
governmental agencies are leveraging IS to connect with the crowd for a 
variety of different purposes. Additionally, completely new business models 
are emerging that rely on sustained engagement from a vast, unknown 
user population. Similar to other open innovation models, ?crowdsourcing? 
presents 
several challenges that organizations must overcome in order to achieve 
success (e..g, absorptive capacity issues, legal implications, knowledge 
spillover, competitor access, etc.). 

The objective of the ?Crowdsourcing for Innovation, Productivity, and 
Creativity? track is to promote the exchange of knowledge on the roles of 
IS and technology to facilitate organizational crowdsourcing initiatives. 
Papers examining the role of IS platforms, social media tools, and IT 
infrastructures that enable crowdsourcing, organizational uses of the crowd 
(non-profits, for-profits, associations, governmental, etc.), economic 
benefits, policy issues, theoretical frameworks and taxonomies are welcome. 
Theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions from a variety of 
perspectives are encouraged. 

Topics include, but are not limited to: 
- Platforms, tools, and technologies 
- Design of analytical tools for managing crowd-based initiatives 
- Organizing taxonomies, frameworks, and classifications 
- IS and business strategy alignment 
- Theoretical exploration of the role of collective intelligence, 
distributed knowledge, and diversity in crowdsourcing - Crowdsourcing for 
innovation, problem solving, productivity, and creativity 
- Practical approaches to fostering creativity at individual, group 
and organizational levels 
- Social, managerial, and legal implications of crowdsourcing 
- Marketing and brand awareness 
- Characteristics and motivations of the crowd 
- Collecting, filtering, and evaluating of crowd input for knowledge 
and business intelligence purposes 
- The use of incentives and rewards to motivate participation 
- Integration into and impact on institutionalized processes 
- Information quality frameworks 
- Value creation 
- New forms of organizing 
- Building crowd-based or crowd-supported organizations 
- Organizational learning and the use of social media for 
crowdsourcing initiatives 
- Knowledge management systems for managing crowdsourcing 
- Crowdsourcing, collaboration, problem solving with social media 
- Governance and policy issues 
- Application and extension of IS theory 
- Organizational and cultural influences (e.g., leadership, 
organizational culture, technology infrastructure, regulation, and 
economics) 
- Comparisons to open innovation, open source software, and outsourcing 
- Emergence of new business models 
- Methodological techniques for understanding network structures 
of crowdsourcing initiatives 

Conference Submissions 
The conference invites papers and poster submissions on a broad range of IS 
themes relevant to crowdsourcing. 

Types of contributions, in English, via the EasyChair Submission System ( 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2012): 
- Full research papers (7?12 pages) 
- Extended abstracts and short research-in-progress papers (3?7 pages) 
- Panel proposals (2?3 pages) 
- Posters (A2) 

Important Due Dates 
- Deadline for submissions: *March 25, 2012* 
- Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012 
- Camera-ready versions: June 1st, 2012 
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:29:09 +0000 
From: "Bera, Palash" <palash.bera at tamiu.edu> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Call For Papers-11th Annual Symposium on Research 
in Systems Analysis and Design 
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Call for Papers 
The 11th Annual Symposium on Research in Systems Analysis and Design (http://sigsand2012.sauder.ubc.ca) will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on June 1st-2nd, 2012. The purpose of the symposium is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among scholars with research interests in all issues related to analysis and design of enterprise systems. We solicit research papers addressing issues such as creation of new systems analysis and design formalisms and development methods (grammars and methods), evaluation of new or existing formalisms and methods by examining issues involving their use (scripts and context), and polemic arguments on the potential value of various approaches. Given the broad range of issues in this call, submissions can be anchored in any of a range of research methods including formal analysis, systems development (design science), experiments, case studies, and field studies. 
Specific research topics include: 

* Ontological foundations of Systems Analysis and Design 
* Object Oriented Methods and Methodologies 
* Unified Modeling Language (UML) 
* Requirements Determination 
* Empirical Studies in Systems Analysis and Design 
* System Principles 
* Database Analysis and Design 
* Query Languages 
* Component-based Development 
* Conceptual Modeling 
* Business Process Modeling 
* Workflow Modeling 
* Agile Systems Development 
* Comparing Structured Approaches with Agile Approaches 
* Project Management Issues in Systems Analysis and Design 
* Software Quality Control 
* Teaching Systems Analysis and Design 
* Information Systems as Services 
Submissions may be: 1) completed research papers or 2) research-in-progress papers. Completed research papers should include the design of the research along with the findings; research-in-progress papers can include just initial ideas and some initial thoughts on design. Each submission should indicate the submission type on the cover page. The following length limits apply: 

* Completed research - 5,000 words 
* Research-in-Progress - 2,500 words 
Submissions should be sent as email attachments to (sigsand at sauder.ubc.ca<mailto:sigsand at sauder.ubc.ca>) and marked "Submission" in the Subject field. All submissions should be double-spaced and use 12-point font. 
All submissions will be reviewed by the symposium organizers for relevance and contribution to the theme. Accepted submissions will receive in-depth feedback at the symposium from participants. Feedback at the symposium is developmental in scope and tone. In addition to substantive feedback, authors of completed research may receive advice about positioning and potential journal submissions. Research-in-progress authors may receive specific feedback on structuring the research, research methods, and strategic positioning. Authors will retain copyright on their work, allowing them to submit revised versions of their papers to other outlets. The PDF version can be found here<http://sigsand2012.sauder.ubc.ca/CFP%20Sigsand%202011%20final.pdf> 
Important Dates 
Submission of Manuscript: April 1, 2012 
Notification of Acceptance/rejection: April 30, 2012 
Final paper due: May 15, 2012 
Symposium: June 1-2, 2012 
2012 SIGSAND CO-CHAIRS: 
Yair Wand<http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Wand_Yair.aspx>, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 
Carson Woo<http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Woo_Carson.aspx>, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 
PROGRAM CHAIRS 
Andrew Gemino<http://beedie.sfu.ca/profiles/AndrewGemino>, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada 
Palash Bera<http://texascenter.tamiu.edu/ssb/lstprofile.asp?pfcNum=10075>, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, Texas, USA 
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COORDINATOR: 
Michael Wufka, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
Kafui Monu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
Paula Chang, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
WEBSITE COORDINATOR: 
William Tan<http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Tan_William>, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:52:23 +0000 
From: "Chidambaram, Laku" <laku at ou.edu> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Assistant Professor of MIS (Tenure-track) Position 
at the University of Oklahoma 
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Assistant Professor of MIS 

The University of Oklahoma (OU) anticipates a tenure-track Assistant Professor position becoming available in Fall 2012 for a productive scholar in the area of Management Information Systems (MIS). Our strong MIS program builds on a solid history of excellence and distinguished senior faculty members. It offers an undergraduate major in MIS (which has been ranked among the top programs in the country), an undergraduate minor in MIS, an MS in MIS, an MBA/MS in MIS, a Graduate Certificate in MIS, and a PhD in MIS. It also operates a Center for MIS Studies (CMISS), has an active MIS Student Association (MISSA), generates sizable scholarships annually, and enjoys significant support from the business community. Faculty members are world-renowned, engaged in thriving research programs, generate significant external research funding, play leadership roles in top journals and conferences, and are outstanding teachers. Significant opportunities exist for professional growth and ! 
recognition as a member of OU?s Michael F. Price College of Business. 

Desirable qualifications include evidence of excellent research and teaching. Must have an earned PhD in MIS or related disciplines, or ABD with dissertation defended by August 31, 2012. Salary is open and competitive and will depend upon qualifications. Screening will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Oklahoma is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 

Norman, where OU is located, has been ranked among the best places to live in numerous surveys. It has a vibrant art and cultural community, is very affordable, and is located close to major cities. The campus is beautifully landscaped, is one of the most wired in the nation, and boasts of many top-ranked academic and athletic programs. 

Electronically submit your application materials (CV, copies of papers, teaching evaluations, names of references etc.) to: 

Dr. Laku Chidambaram 
Director, MIS Division 
University of Oklahoma 
Michael F. Price College of Business 
307 West Brooks, Room 307E 
Norman, OK 73019-0450 
Phone: (405) 325-8013 
E-mail: laku at ou.edu<mailto:laku at ou.edu> 

For more information about our MIS program, you can visit http://price.ou.edu/mis 

Laku Chidambaram 
Division Director and W.P. Wood Professor of MIS | Michael F. Price College of Business | University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK 73019, USA | Phone: (405) 325-8013 | Fax: (405) 325-3421 | Home: http://www.ou.edu/price/mis.html 
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Message: 4 
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:20:28 +0100 
From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] First Interdisciplinary Summer School on 
Ontological Analysis: Registration opened 
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The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) 
organizes the 

First Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis 
July 16-20, 2012 -- Trento, Italy 

http://iaoa.org/isc2012/index.php 

Six experts in different disciplines (philosophy, cognitive linguistics, 
knowledge representation and conceptual modeling) will meet for a week 
with students and researchers to present common themes in applied ontology 
and describe them from each discipline's viewpoint, to engage in open 
discussions with each other, and to interact with the participants. 

Registration 
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Registration is now open 
(the fee includes admission to all courses, coffee breaks, and lunches). 

Early Registration (Mar 15 - Apr 16): Student 150 euro, Regular 250 euro 
Late Registration (Apr 17 - Jul 06): Student 250 euro, Regular 350 euro 

The registration is open only to IAOA members 
(for IAOA membership fee see http://www.iaoa.org/membership/membership.html). 

The number of participants is limited to 80. Participation is granted based 
on the order of registration. 

Grants 
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The IAOA funds some grants for students. The grant covers the registration fee. 
In exceptional cases the IAOA will contribute to cover travel expenses and 
accommodation. 

Courses 
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Christiane Fellbaum, Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University, 
Ontology, semantics, and cognitive linguistics 

Chiara Ghidini and Luciano Serafini, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, 
Logical tools for ontological analysis 

Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, 
Introduction to Applied Ontology 

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Dept. of Computer Science, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, 
Ontology-driven conceptual modelling 

Kevin Mulligan, Dept. of Philosophy, Universit? de Gen?ve, 
Ontological analysis: the philosophical perspective 

Visit the web site of the school for more information: 

http://iaoa.org/isc2012/index.php 

The school is open to students, researchers and practitioners. 

Feel free to distribute the announcement. 

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Message: 5 
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:34:41 +0000 
From: Anne Persson <anne.persson at his.se> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Senior lecturer position in Informatics with 
expertise in databases, data warehousing and data modeling 
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One senior lecturer position in Informatics, with expertise in databases, data warehousing and data modeling, is open at the University of Sk?vde, Sweden. 

We are looking for a strong applicant with a doctoral degree in 
informatics, software engineering, or computer science that has 
expertise in databases, data warehousing and data modeling. The position 
is full-time and includes research, teaching and administrative work. 

It is expected that the applicant is able to teach in English and within 
2 years is able to teach in Swedish. 

The University of Sk?vde is an expansive university that offers 
traditional and unique educational programs within a number of different 
areas. Informatics is a prioritised research area at the University of 
Sk?vde. The University employs at the present time approximately 500 
people with about 11 000 students and constitutes an important resource 
for regional development. A central campus area in central Sk?vde offers 
a creative environment with excellent possibilities for development for 
employees and students. 

The closing date for receipt of applications is 30th April 2012. 

Application information: 
Ref nr HS 2012/24-42 
http://www.his.se/english/university/job-openings/senior-lecturer-in-informatics-hs-2012-24-42/ 

General information: 
Mikael Berndtsson, Assistant Professor, e-mailmikael.berndtsson at his.se<mailto:mikael.berndtsson at his.se> 

Informatics Research Centre: 

http://www.his.se/english/research/informatics/ 

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Anne Persson, Ph.D. 
Professor in Informatics 
Dean, Faculty Board for Informatics, Engineering and Natural Sciences 
University of Sk?vde 
P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Sk?vde 
SWEDEN 
tel: +46 500 448342 
email: anne.persson at his.se<mailto:anne.persson at his.se> 
www.his.se/pera<http://www.his.se/pera> 
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:52:26 -0400 
From: "Holsapple, Clyde W" <cwhols at email.uky.edu> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] Announcing: Volume 22, issue 1 of the Journal of 
Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce 
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Dear Colleagues: 

I am pleased to announce publication of Volume 22, Issue 1 of the 

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce<http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653688> 

Abstracted/indexed in: ISI Science Citation Index; ISI Science Citation Index Expanded; Journal Citation Reports: Science - Computing & Technology; Scopus; INSPEC; Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management; EBSCOhost Products; CompuMath Citation Index; Computer Abstracts; PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts; Ergonomics Abstracts. 

This issue is comprised of the following articles: 

"A Theoretical Framework for Consumer E-Satisfaction and Site Stickiness: 
An Evaluation in the Context of Online Hotel Reservations" 

Greta L. Polites 
Clay K. Williams 
Elena Karahanna 
Larry Seligman 
E-satisfaction, defined in this study as overall satisfaction with an e-vendor's website, is considered an important factor in encouraging loyalty to that site. Yet, to date, findings have varied tremendously, in both the strength of the satisfaction-loyalty relationship and factors surrounding it. We approach the study of e-satisfaction and e-loyalty (here termed "site stickiness") from a site-specific perspective, meaning that we focus on consumer perceptions of satisfaction with, and loyalty toward, the information technology (IT) artifact (website) itself, excluding outside influences, such as offline interactions with the e-vendor and post-consumption experiences. We further seek to understand the satisfaction-stickiness relationship in the context of the hospitality industry, where loyalty programs are believed to play a key role in impacting consumer behavior. We ground our research model in Bagozzi's 1992<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10919392.2012.64224!

2#CIT0005> framework of the self-regulation of attitudes, intentions, and behavior, and test it using a survey of 4838 consumers who visited a large hotel chain's website for the specific purpose of researching room rates and availability as a prelude to booking a room. Results generally support the proposed model. Post hoc analyses indicate that while trust is not a significant direct predictor of satisfaction, it negatively moderates the value-satisfaction relationship. Loyalty card membership, while an important predictor of site stickiness, does not moderate the satisfaction-stickiness relationship as suggested in prior research. This indicates further research is necessary to explore other ways of conceptualizing the impact of loyalty programs, such as investigating member vestedness. 

"Why Do Consumers Go Internet Shopping Again? 
Understanding the Antecedents of Repurchase Intention" 

Yue-Yang Chen 

Consumer intention of reusing online websites for shopping has a major consequence for an electronic commerce company's profitability. Therefore, understanding the factors that influence online customers' repurchase intentions is of great importance to the EC companies. Drawing on specific dimensions of Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), Information Systems continuance model, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and empirical findings from prior studies as antecedents, the related factors were adapted and integrated within the context of Internet shopping repurchase intentions and were tested in a field study. Empirical data for hypotheses testing were collected from the online virtual store of 7-ELEVEN in Taiwan, yielding 444 valid samples. The results show that online consumer repurchase intention is determined by satisfaction, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and Internet shopping self-efficacy. Satisfaction is influenced by perceived usefulness, perceived ease of u!

se, confirmation, and positive Internet shopping experience. Perceived usefulness, in turn, is influenced by behavior modeling, positive Internet shopping experience, Internet shopping self-efficacy, and confirmation. Confirmation is affected by positive Internet shopping experience and behavior modeling. In addition, confirmation has significant effects on perceived ease of use. Finally, positive Internet shopping experience appeared to have a significant impact on Internet shopping self-efficacy. From the empirical data, meaningful findings and conclusions are derived, and suggestions for future research are also discussed. 

"A Cross-National Study on Online Consumer Perceptions, Trust, and Loyalty" 

Sonia San-Mart?n 
Carmen Camarero 

This article analyzes the validity of signaling theory and relationship marketing in e-commerce and in two different countries with different stages of technology development. We advance a model that reflects the role played by website characteristics as determinant factors of trust and loyalty to the website. The model is tested for young Internet users. It is examined in Spanish and Japanese contexts to ascertain whether any differences emerge due to differing cultures and shopping contexts. Results reveal few differences between Spain and Japan, despite their contrasting development of e-commerce and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Customer service is the most important website signal to engender trust, a feature closely linked to loyalty both in Japan and Spain. However, reputation seems more important when engaging Japanese buyers' trust, whereas only website design has an impact on Spanish buyers' trust. 

"Power-Dependence and Reseller Influence on SMEs' Continued Use of Online Direct Sales Channels: An Empirical Study" 

Xiaolin Li 
Suvankar Ghosh 

A dual-channel model with a physical sales channel and an online direct sales channel (ODSC) frequently causes channel conflicts. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using such a model may be forced to suspend ODSC to ease conflicts and maintain traditional resellers. From a channel conflict perspective, this study investigates a few critical factors underlying SMEs' intention to continue with an existing ODSC. We develop a research model by integrating power-dependence theory and the technology acceptance model. Then we construct and administer a survey to a sample of US SMEs currently using the dual-channel model. Partial least squares regression is employed to analyze the data and evaluate the impact of four key factors on SMEs' continuance of ODSCs: perceived business value of ODSCs, perceived ease of continuance with ODSCs, reseller dependence, and reseller forceful actions. Findings of the study contribute to the understanding of supplier-reseller relationships !

and continued use of information technologies among SMEs. 

These articles are presently available at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hoce20/current 

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Please consider JOCEC as a possible outlet for your own high-quality innovative research dealing with multiparticipant, inter-personal, distributed, organizational, and inter-organizational digital systems. 

Clyde W. Holsapple 
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce<http://www.leaonline.com/loi/joce> 
Gatton College of Business and Economics 
University of Kentucky 

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:48:01 -0500 
From: Keng Siau <ksiau at unlnotes.unl.edu> 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] Critical Success Factors of Location Based 
Services -- A Request 
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Dear friends and colleagues: 

One of my graduate students, Natalie Chin, is collecting data to complete 
her master thesis (part of her degree requirements). I hope you can spare 
10 minutes to participate (see below for details). 

To participate, please go to the following website: 
http://research-mis.com The study will take less than 10 minutes 
(including watching two interesting videos). 

Thanks in advance. 

Cheers, 
Keng 
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Professor Keng Siau, Ph.D. 
Edwin J. Faulkner Professor 
CBA 255, Department of Management 
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491. USA 
Phone: 1-402-472-3078 Fax: 1-402-472-5855 
Email: ksiau at unl.edu 
Website: http://cba.unl.edu/people/ksiau 
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Study Title: Critical Success Factors of Location Based Services 

Dear Madam/Sir, 

We need your help to understand the critical success factors of location 
based services. The study will take less than 10 minutes (including 
watching two interesting videos). 

My name is Natalie Chin, a master?s degree candidate at the Department of 
Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In my thesis research,we aim 
to understand the factors that contribute to the success of location based 
services. Location based services is defined as ?is an information or 
entertainment service, which is accessible with mobile devices through the 
mobile network and which uses information on the geographical position of 
the mobile device.? 

We would like to invite you to participate in an online, asynchronous 
brainstorming session to identify the critical success factors of location 
based services. Participation is voluntary and all data collected will be 
kept in a secured location at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The 
results of the study may be published or presented at professional 
conferences and journals, but the results will only be presented in 
aggregated forms. No individual will be identifiable from the results. 

We will be happy to answer any questions that you may have about the 
study.You may contact me at natalie.j.chin at gmail.com or my faculty 
advisor, Dr. Keng Siau, 402-472-3078, ksiau1 at unl.edu if you have study 
related questions or issues. If you have any questions about your rights 
as a research participant, you may contact the Institutional Review Board 
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at 402-472-6965. 

Thank you for your kind consideration. We hope you will help us with this 
study by completing the questions at the following website 
http://research-mis.com 

With kind regards, 

Natalie Chin 
Department of Management 
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491 
Email: natalie.j.chin at gmail.com 

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Message: 8 
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:35:02 +0100 
From: "Christian Pichler" <christian.pichler at ec.tuwien.ac.at> 
To: <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] CfP: 14th IEEE Conference on Commerce and 
Enterprise Computing (CEC 2012) 
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CEC 2012 
The 14th IEEE International Conference on Commerce and Enterprise 
Computing 
September 9-11, 2012 
Hangzhou, China 

http://conferences.computer.org/cec/2012/ 

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Call for Research Papers 
======================== 
The IEEE International Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing 
(CEC) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present 
and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences 
and concerns in selected areas at the realm of the convergence between 
Business and Informatics. This convergence includes work in E-Commerce, 
Enterprise Computing, Technology-enabled Business Models and 
Transformation as well as specific Information Systems in Industries. 
The program of CEC 2012 will consist of invited talks, technical paper 
presentations, tutorials, industry sessions, workshops, and panel 
discussions representing both foundational contributions and applied 
research. 

Topics: 

We invite submissions of high quality papers describing fully developed 
results or on-going foundational and applied work on the following 
topics: 

Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture 
Business Process Modelling, Architecture, Management and IT 
Implementation 
Information Systems Support for Service and Process Variation 
Enterprise Transformation enabled by Information Technology 
Commerce Technologies and Business Model Innovation 
eCommerce Applications in Specific Industries 
Social Business: Foundations and Industry Applications 
Security, Trust and Risk 
Information Technology support for Highly-Skilled Professional Services 
Science-Based Standards 
Human Computer Interaction 
Cloud Computing 
Information Technology for Monitoring and Managing Business Performance 
Service Systems and Service-Oriented Modeling 
Value Networks in Service Industries 
Green IT/Green Supply Chains 
Business Ontology and Ontological Engineering 

Accepted conference papers will be included in the conference 
proceedings of IEEE CEC 2012 published by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE 
digital libraries (EI and INSPEC indexed). 

Special Issues on CEC 2012 

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to be 
published after expansion, review, and revision as required to: 
Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), published by 
Springer (EI) 
Link: http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761 

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Preliminary conference schedule 
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Paper Submission: May 18, 2012 
Notification: June 25, 2012 
Final Version: July 8, 2012 
Workshops and Tutorials Submission Deadline: March 31, 2012 
Workshops and Tutorials Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2012 

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The CEC 2012 conference will be held in conjunction with 

- the 9th Netrepreneur Summit 
http://www.aliresearch.com/wspx/2012jointconf/en/index.htm 
- and the ICEBE 2012 
http://conferences.computer.org/icebe/2012/index.htm 

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Message: 9 
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:14:35 +0000 
From: Kai Fischbach <Fischbach at wim.uni-koeln.de> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] ISeB CfP: Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) 
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********************************************************* 
Call for Papers 
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) 

Special Issue on Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) 
Deadline: April 1, 2012 
********************************************************* 

*Guest Editors* 
Kai Fischbach (University of Bamberg, Germany) 
Christine Legner (HEC Lausanne, Switzerland) 
Robert Winter (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) 

*Theme* 
The complexity of corporate information technology (IT) environments has been steadily growing in the last decades, and keeping pace with an ever-changing business environment has become a constant challenge. In response, architectural considerations have become a key concern in today's information management. It is acknowledged that only continuous and holistic management of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) can ensure the sustainability, agility, and strategic alignment of corporate IT environments. 
Enterprise architecture management (EAM) has evolved as a discipline, beginning in the 1990s. Early work centered on architecture models, principles, and standards that comprise the content of the EA. As companies gain practical experience implementing EA concepts, they become more concerned with the management aspects in EAM, the effectiveness of EAM and its success factors. Despite a growing body of EA-related knowledge, different definitions of EAM coexist, ranging from enterprise-wide IT management to enterprise development and transformation. Correspondingly, researchers have identified substantial differences with respect to the objectives followed, the methodology employed, and the organizational implementation of EAM in practice. This has stimulated studies related to EAM adoption scenarios and situational aspects of EAM implementation. Still, though, EAM is a relatively young and immature discipline, characterized by a great variety of research approaches and a stro!

ng focus on conceptual frameworks and models. Until recently, theoretically rounded research on EAM practice has been rather limited. 
With this special issue, the journal Information Systems and e-Business Management seeks to stimulate EAM research. We invite original submissions of novel research that advances our understanding of EAM as a management discipline. We are open to all types of contributions, including conceptual, design-oriented, and theory-building papers. We encourage authors to submit contributions that are lively and will inspire readers from both academia and industry. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. 
1) The EAM discipline and its relationship to other management disciplines (e.g., strategic management, organizational development, IT management). 
2) Specific EAM application contexts (e.g., IT/business alignment, business transformation, M&A, outsourcing). 
3) EAM strategy (EAM positioning and goals, EAM services/"products," communication and stakeholder involvement). 
4) Conceptualizing EAM (e.g., meta models, roadmaps, specific architectures such as business architecture). 
5) EAM organization and governance (e.g., processes, organizational roles, monitoring, and key performance indicators). 
6) EAM tool support and EAM-related standards. 
7) Organizational implementation of EAM (e.g., situational adaptation). 
8) EAM adoption and success. 
9) EAM value (metrics, funding, and charging). 
10) Innovative EAM case studies 

*Deadlines* 
April 1, 2012 Paper submission deadline 
June 1, 2012 First round review completed 
June 20, 2012 Editorial decisions due 
Aug 5, 2012 Revised papers due (second round) 
Sep 25, 2012 Second-round review completed 
Oct 1, 2012 Editorial decisions due 
Nov 15, 2012 Revised papers due (third round) 
Dec 15, 2012 Final decisions 

*Submission Instructions* 
Articles submitted to the journal should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Authors submitting articles for publication should follow the submission guidelines of ISeB for preparing the manuscripts. Submissions should be sent to the guest editors of this Special Issue via the journal's editorial manager system: http://www.editorialmanager.com/iseb/ 
Please choose the article type 'S.I.: Enterprise Architecture Management' while submitting to the special issue. 

*Associate Editors* 
Frederik Ahlemann (EBS Business School, Germany) 
Jo?o Paulo A. Almeida (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil) 
Scott Bernard (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 
Brian Cameron (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 
Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) 
Robert Lagerstr?m (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) 
Susanne Leist (University of Regensburg, Germany) 
Florian Mattes (Technical University of Munich, Germany) 
Erik Proper (Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) 
Raymond Slot (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands) 
Jos? Tribolet (INESC and TU Lisbon, Portugal) 

*About the Journal* 
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) is an international journal that focuses on the core tasks of Information Systems Management, the conceptual analysis, design, and deployment of information systems, as well as on all e-business related topics. The central aim of the journal is to publish original, well-written, self-contained contributions that elucidate novel research and innovation in information systems management and e-business which advance the field fundamentally and significantly. 
Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) has been accepted for Social Sciences Citation Index, Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition and Current Contents / Social and Behavioral Sciences. 

-- 
Prof. Dr. Kai Fischbach 
University of Bamberg 
Chair in Information Systems and Social Networks 

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Message: 10 
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:22:40 +0100 
From: "DAVID GARCIA ROSADO" <David.GRosado at uclm.es> 
To: <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Cc: <aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP WOSIS 2012 (special issue of Computer 
Standards and Interfaces) 
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[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please pass it on to your colleagues and students who might be interested in contributing] 

The best papers will have the chance to publish extended and revised versions in a special issue of Computer Standards and Interfaces in the ISI Journal Citation Reports with Impact factor of 0.825. 

**** CALL FOR PAPERS **** 

The Ninth International Workshop on Security In Information Systems WOSIS-2012 

28 June - 1 July, 2012 - Wroclaw, Poland 

http://www.iceis.org/wosis.aspx <http://www.iceis.org/wosis.aspx> 

To be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2012) http://www.iceis.org/ <http://www.iceis.org/> 

********Important Dates******** 

Regular Paper Submission: 30 March, 2012 

Authors Notification: 20 April, 2012 

Camera Ready Submission Deadline: 4 May, 2012 

***************************** 

Co-chairs: 

Dr. David G. Rosado 

University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain 

David.GRosado at uclm.es 

Dr. Luis Enrique S?nchez 

Sicaman-NT, Departament of R+D, Spain 

lesanchez at sicaman-nt.com 

Dr. Carlos Blanco 

University of Cantabria, Spain 

blancobc at unican.es 

Dr. Jan J?rjens 

Technical University of Dortmund, Germany 

jan.jurjens at cs.tu-dortmund.de 

Workshop Background and Goals 

Information Systems Security is one of the most pressing challenges facing all kinds of organizations today. Although many companies have discovered how critical information is to the success of their business or operations, very few have managed to be effective in maintaining their information secure, avoiding unauthorized access, preventing intrusions, stopping secret information disclosure, etc. 

There are various definitions of security, but all of them basically agree on the same components. Security in information systems considers the protection of information and of the systems that manage it, against a wide range of threats in order to ensure business continuity, minimize risks and maximize the return on investment and business opportunities. 

Security is, therefore, currently a widespread and growing concern that covers all areas of society: business, domestic, financial, government, and so on. In fact, the so-called information society is increasingly dependent on a wide range of software systems whose mission is critical, such as air traffic control systems, financial systems, or public health systems. The potential losses that are faced by businesses and organizations that rely on all these systems, both hardware and software, therefore signify that it is crucial for information systems to be properly secured from the outset. 

With the increasing dependence that the information society has on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the need to protect information is increasingly important for companies. The demand for products, systems and services with which to manage and maintain information is therefore increasing, and the realization of superficial security controls is not sufficient. It is necessary to apply a rigorous approach to the assessing and improvement of the security of products and processes that take place in the context of ICT. This has led to the emergence of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), which are of great importance to the stability of companies' information systems. 

In this new edition of WOSIS, the traditional information systems security topics will remain but we want explicitly focus the workshop on one of the most important issues and currently considered as it is security in Cloud computing. Although there are many benefits to adopting cloud computing, there are also some significant barriers to adoption as is security followed by issues regarding compliance, privacy and legal matters. Security is the main obstacle for many organizations in their move to the cloud, related to risk areas such as external data storage, dependency on the "public" internet, multi-tenancy and integration with internal security. The objective of this new edition is to contribute to the study and analysis of solutions and approaches which help to achieve and facilitate the level of security needed for such distributed environments and that its adoption is not any problem for the society, administration and enterprise. 

KeyNote Speaker 

Dr. Haris Mouratidis 

Principal Lecturer in Secure Systems and Software Development. Field Leader of the Computer Science Field. School of Computing, IT and Engineering. University of East London. 

He is co-director of the Distributed Software Engineering Research Group at CITE and his research interests are related to secure software systems engineering and information systems development. He has published more than 80 refereed papers in relevant journals and conferences and he has received national and international funding for projects related to the above research areas. He is PC Co-Chair of CAiSE'11 and co-editor in Chief of the International Journal of Agent Oriented Software Engineering. He is at the Editorial Board of the Requirements Engineering Journal. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

Topic for Cloud Computing 

* Security Engineering for Cloud-Based Systems 
* Security Requirements Engineering for Cloud-Based Systems 
* Risks and threats in Cloud 
* Privacy and Data protection in Cloud 
* Cloud Legal Issues 
* Trust and policy management in Clouds 
* Issues and recent approaches in portability, interoperability and migration 
* Secure migration processes to cloud computing 
* Security in migration models 
* Systems adapted to the cloud 
* Storage security 
* Cloud Infrastructure Security 
* Security Governance in the Cloud 
* Risk management and assessment and third-party risk management 
* Identity & Access Management in the Cloud 
* Security and Virtualization 
* Security in SaaS, PaaS and IaaS 
* Security in Cloud applications 
* Cloud security models 
* MDA and MDS applied to cloud computing 
* Case studies 

Rest of topics 

* Security in Software development Life Cycle 
* Information Security Management System 
* Security Management and Assessment 
* Analysis and management of risks 
* Security Implementation, Secure programming and Security Deployment 
* Case studies and experiences of secure software 
* Security culture 
* IT Governance 
* IT Service Continuity 
* Language-based Security 
* Open Security Standards and Security Certification 
* Common practice, legal and regulatory issues 
* Security for SOA, Web Services, Grid computing 
* Security for Databases and Data Warehouses 
* Metadata and Security 
* Secure Data Management 
* Workflow and Business Process Security 
* Security Metrics and Measurement 
* Security Ontologies 
* Security in Software Product Lines 
* Distributed and Network Security 
* Security & Trust Models 
* Authentication, Authorization and Access Control 
* Anonymity and Privacy 
* Security for Mobile Computing, sensors networks, multimedia systems 
* Security for Electronic Commerce, Electronic Business and e-Services (e-voting, e-banking, e-governement, e-health) 
* Security in Social Networks 
* Security for embedded systems, smart cards and RFID 
* Security Issues in Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing 
* Intellectual Property Protection 
* Digital Rights Management (DRM). Mobile DRM 
* Personal Data Protection for Information Systems and Digital Identity management 
* Access Control and Rights Expression Languages 
* Semantic Web Technologies applied to Security 
* Security Engineering 
* Disaster Recovery and Failure Prevention 
* Incident Response and Prevention 
* Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection 
* Biometric Security 
* Cryptology: Cryptography and Cryptanalysis 
* Information hiding: Steganography & Steganalysis 
* Digital Forensics 
* Cyber terrorism 

Paper Submission 

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the topics listed above. Submitted papers must present original, non-published work of high quality. Only papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages for full papers and 8 pages for short papers (figures and appendices included). 

Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at the conference Paper Templates web page. Please also check the web page with the Submission Guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris <http://www.insticc.org/Primoris> 

Publications 

All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and in CD-ROM support. Additionally, the best papers will have the chance to publish extended and revised versions in a special issue of a Journal in the ISI Journal Citation Reports. 

Workshop Program Committee 

Alfonso Rodriguez. University of Bio-Bio. Chile 

Ambrosio Toval. University of Murcia. Spain 

Andreas Bauer, National ICT Australia. Australia 

Antonio Ma?a. University of Malaga. Spain 

Brajendra Panda. University of Arkansas. USA 

Csilla Farkas. University of South Carolina. USA 

Daniel Mellado. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain 

Debasis Giri. Haldia Institute of Technology. India 

Duminda Wijesekera. University George Mason. USA 

Eduardo Fern?ndez-Medina. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain 

Eduardo B. Fern?ndez. Florida Atlantic University. USA 

Ernesto Damiani. Universit? degli Studi di Milano. Italy 

G?nther Pernul. University of Regensburg. Germany 

Hugo Jonker. University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg 

Indrakshi Ray. Colorado State University. USA 

Jaejoon Lee. Lancaster University. UK 

Jaime Delgado. Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya. Spain 

Kevin Butler. University of Oregon. USA 

Luigi Lo Iacono, European University of Applied Sciences. Germany 

Mar?a Carmen Fern?ndez. Universidad de M?laga. Spain 

Mario Piattini. University of Castilla-La Mancha. Spain 

Mihai Christodorescu. University of Wisconsin. USA <http://www.wisc.edu/> 

Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu. Estonia 

Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne. Australia 

Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati. Universit? degli Studi di Milano. Italy 

Shareful Islam. University of East London. UK 

Shinsaku Kiyomoto. KDDI R & D Laboratories Inc. Japan 

Siani Pearson. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Bristol, UK. 

Spyros Kokolakis. Athens University of Economics and Business. Greece 

Stamatis Karnouskos. SAP AG. Germany 

Steven Furnell. University of Plymouth. UK 

Toshihiro Yamauchi. Okayama University <http://www.okayama-u.ac.jp/index_e.html> . Japan 

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Message: 11 
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:21:42 -0400 
From: Mohd Anwar <MANWAR at pitt.edu> 
To: aisworld at lists.aisnet.org 
Subject: [AISWorld] CFP Reminder: IEEE IRI 2012 
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IEEE IRI 2012 - Deadline Extension 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Mar 28, 2012 Paper submission deadline (Midnight PST ) 
May 10, 2012 Acceptance Notification 
May 24, 2012 Camera-ready paper due 

www.sis.pitt.edu/~iri2012/ 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has 
tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and 
integrating very large volumes of information from diverse sources to 
enable effective decision making and knowledge generation have become one 
of the most significant challenges of current times. Information Reuse and 
Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating 
simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently 
explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into systems and 
applications. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, 
maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; 
and, applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making 
in various application domains. The conference includes, but is not 
limited to, the areas listed below: 

? Large Scale Data and System Integration 
? Component-Based Design and Reuse 
? Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies 
? Database Integration 
? Structured/Semi-structured Data 
? Middleware & Web Services 
? Reuse in Software Engineering 
? Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 
? Sensory and Information Fusion 
? Reuse in Modeling & Simulation 
? Automation, Integration and Reuse Across Applications 
? Information Security & Privacy 
? Survivable Systems & Infrastructures 
? AI & Decision Support Systems; Heuristic Optimization and Search 
? Knowledge Acquisition and Management 
? Fuzzy and Neural Systems 
? Soft/Evolutionary Computing 
? Case-Based Reasoning 
? Natural Language Understanding 
? Knowledge Management and E-Government 
? Command & Control Systems (C4ISR) 
? Human-Machine Information Systems 
? Biomedical & Healthcare Systems 
? Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection 
? Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering 
? Space and Robotic Systems 
? Multimedia Systems 
? Service-Oriented Architectures 
? Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems 
? Information Integration in Grid, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing 
Environment 
? Systems of Systems 
? Semantic Web and Emerging Applications 
? Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments 

Instructions for Authors: Papers reporting original and unpublished 
research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. 
Full paper manuscripts must be in English of up to 8 pages (using the IEEE 
two-column template). The online submission site is: 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iri2012. Papers will be 
selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, 
and clarity of presentation. Paper submission implies the intent of at 
least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. 

Best Paper Award: The best paper will be selected by separate committee 
and will be the one that reports the most novel and promising research 
work that has a high potential impact in the real world. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA 
Honorary General Chair: Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, 
USA 

General Chairs 
Stuart Rubin 
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, USA 

Shu-Ching Chen 
Florida International University, USA 

Program Chairs 
Elisa Bertino 
Purdue University, USA 

Bhavani Thuraisingham 
University of Texas at Dallas, USA 

James B.D. Joshi 
University of Pittsburgh, USA 

Chengcui Zhang 
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 

*********************** 
Mohd Anwar, Ph.D. 
School of Information Sciences 
University of Pittsburgh 

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Message: 12 
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:55:30 +0200 
From: Jacques Steyn <jacques at steyn.pro> 
To: "aisworld at lists.aisnet.org" <aisworld at lists.aisnet.org> 
Subject: [AISWorld] CfP ISD2012 Track: The changing landscape of 
Information Systems. Properties of a new IS ecology. 
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CfP ISD2012 Track: The changing landscape of Information Systems. 
Properties of a new IS ecology. 

*Track Theme 
*The changing landscape of Information Systems. Properties of a new IS 
ecology. 
Is this a new kind of IS? Or just more of the same thing? 

*Conference Theme 
*Building Sustainable Information Systems 

*Dates 
*Conference dates: 29-31August 2012 
Paper submission deadline: 20 April 2012 

*Venue 
*Prato, Italy 

*Conference Website 
*http://infotech.monash.edu/research/ISD2012/ 

*Some keywords 
*Information Systems, social media, mobile technologies, HCI, ecological 
systems, social sustainability, developing world, micro businesses. 

*CfP 
*We invite you to submit an abstract for a proposed paper in the area of 
Information Systems for ISD2012 (21st International Systems Development 
Conference) to be held on 29-31August 2012 in Prato, Italy. 

Sustainability has several meanings, with the dominant meaning referring 
to the natural ecological and environmental domains. Green IT relatively 
recently became a popular topic at conferences and in publications. 
While this is an important issue, sustainability may also refer to the 
maintenance of the complex weave of social systems. Again there is a 
very wide range of meanings of what "social systems" means, but for the 
purpose of this track, social ecology would be the focus. 

Information Systems (IS) theory traditionally focuses on IS for 
organizations, typically business organizations, assuming all other 
kinds of social organizations (such as government organizations and 
non-government organizations) to be variants of business systems. The PC 
itself was developed as a business tool, and only over the past two 
decades with its ability to handle multimedia also became a tool for 
entertainment. Over the past decade the networked PC became a powerful 
tool also in personal communication and private socialization in the 
form of the so-called social media. The rise into prominence of the PC 
as a tool of entertainment, communication and social media put 
information systems in the hands of individuals for the use of 
non-business purposes - i.e. for non-structured or semi-structured 
social organizations and personal use. The recent mobilization of 
non-structured socio-political gatherings on the Mediterranean and in 
the Middle East were made possible by social media technology; while 
citizen pressure groups use social media to get their voices heard, 
demonstrated by the several million objections early in 2012 against the 
proposed Antipiracy Bills in the USA. What is the impact of such 
non-formal social groups and individual use on the design and 
construction of information systems? Should design be about 
Human-Computer-Interface (HCI), or about Human-Human Communication 
(HHC), facilitated by technology? Similar questions were recently posed 
at other conferences, eg. the Interaction conference - 
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25639-in-interaction-design/ 

The PC is no longer the dominant device for entertainment, personal 
communication and private socialization purposes. Mobile phone 
distribution has surpassed the PC in 2010 in market-share. The prominent 
past view of the client-server model, where client meant PC, has changed 
to a model where client now means mobile device - either mobile phone or 
tablet. Do the same principles of IS developed for the PC still apply? 

Ecologically, sustainability has global implications. If social 
sustainability also implies global social sustainability, all societies 
and the complex web of international networks (technological as well as 
social) need to be considered. IS systems in the developing world, which 
makes up the majority of people on this planet, thus also need to be 
considered. However, distribution of network infrastructure in the 
developing world is poor, while most commerce takes place in the 
informal business sector and on the level of micro businesses. In 
addition, the mobile market dominates the PC market by far in the 
developing world. With its emphasis on formal organizational IS, which 
meant business and mostly big business, and at best medium-sized 
businesses, there is not much research in IS circles on information 
systems for micro-organizations and micro-businesses. IS research also 
typically assumes 24/7 broadband connectivity, which is hard to come by 
in the developing world. So how does cloud computing apply in this 
environment? And how should IS be designed for this environment? 

Since the discipline of IS was introduced some time ago, the world has 
changed in the ways described above. What are the implications of this 
trend for future IS research and for principles to build sustainable IS? 
Do we need different theories and models for mobile systems, 
micro-organizations, individuals, social groups, and the developing 
world? Does /status quo/IS hold? These are the questions to be addressed 
in this track. Briefly then, what are the design implications for IS in 
the long-term outcome of these trends and events? Should information 
systems consider expanding the scope of the field, or can the existing 
IS conceptual tools deal with this? 

_Suggested topics:_ 

/A short list to indicate the type of issues of interest to the track/ 

* 

Non-formal organizational IS 

* 

IS for micro businesses 

* 

Social ecology of IS 

* 

Social media and IS 

* 

Mobile phones and IS 

* 

IS in the developing world 

* 

IS for private use 

* 

Social activism and information systems 

* 

The impact of ICT rights on IS 

* 

Alternative metaphors for interface design 

* 

The future of IS 

*Publication 
*Selected papers will be published in a book. 

*Track Chairs 
*Jacques Steyn 
Head of School of Information Technology 
Monash University, South African campus 

Alexandra Cristea 
Dept of Computer Science 
Warwick University 

-- 
___________________________ 
Jacques Steyn PhD, HED 
Head: School of IT 
Monash South Africa 

+27-11-950-4132 Phone 
+27-11-950-4033 Fax 
+27-83-296-9122 Mobile 
jacques.steyn.za Skype 
jacques at steyn.pro 

http://sit.monash.ac.za/ 
http://sit.monash.ac.za/staff/steyn/ 
http://www.steyn.pro/ 

IDIA: International Development Informatics Association 
http://www.developmentinformatics.org/ 
See the IDIA Group on Facebook 

Music Markup Language 
http://www.musicmarkup.info/ 

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From: "Podhradsky,Ashley" <alp87 at drexel.edu> 
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The Richard C. Goodwin College of Professional Studies at Drexel University invites nominations and applications for a full time, Non Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Teaching Professor position within the Computing and Security Technology Program. This is a nine-month or twelve month non-tenure track position. Applications will be accepted from highly qualified individuals in all areas of expertise in Computing and Security Technology, however preference will be given to candidates with the demonstrated potential to establish an active and vigorous research program in network security and/or cyber forensics. We encourage candidates with specializations in all areas of cyber security to apply. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. 

Please find the full description at www.drexeljobs.com or please visit www.drexel.edu to learn more. 

Ashley Podhradsky, D. Sc | Assistant Professor | Drexel University 
One Drexel Plaza 3001 Market Stree, Suite 100? | Philadelphia, PA 19104 
Office: 215-571-3929 | Fax: 215-895-4988 | ashley.podhradsky at drexel.edu 

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